The poetics and politics of curriculum as representation |
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Authors: | Tomaz Tadeu Da Silva |
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a Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil |
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Abstract: | The notion of knowledge that is expressed in current notions of curriculum is fundamentally realist. Curriculum is not, however, as the realist notion implies, a site of transmission of knowledge conceived as a mere revelation of the 'real'. Curriculum is itself a representation: not only a site in which signs that are produced in other places circulate, but also a place of production of signs in its own right. To conceive of curriculum as representation means to highlight the work of its production. There is a place here for a poetics of curriculum. However, to understand the curriculum as representation means also to emphasise its political effects. Representation is always authorised representation: the text that constitutes curriculum is not simply a text; it is a text of power. To conceive of curriculum as representation implies to see it simultaneously, inseparably, as a poetics and as a politics. |
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